Bug#625509: python-debian: please port to Py3k

[John Wright]

On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 02:37:55PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:54:28AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 03:10:29AM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> > > Can you either make this package capable of running for Python 2 and 3,
> > > or make separate packages for it, as python-apt does.
> > 
> > I'm working on this here:
> > 
> >   http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=users/cjwatson/python-debian.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/python3
> > 
> > I will probably end up depending on the six module, which I uploaded to
> > unstable yesterday.  It's tiny, so I shouldn't expect this to cause much
> > of a problem.
> > 
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=656288 in python3-apt
> > is getting in the way a bit, but I suppose worst case I can just skip
> > those tests when running under Python 3 for now.
> 
> I believe this port is now complete, in the git branch above.  It passes
> all tests provided that a version of python3-apt with the most recent
> patch in #656288 is available.
> 
> I would very much appreciate review of this branch.  In case it eases
> review, I've attached the 31-patch series (!) to this mail.  I've tried
> to arrange it roughly in ascending order of complexity.

Wow.  I'll be glad to review them, but I'm not sure when I'll have the
opportunity.  I'll try to make time later this week.

Thanks for the effort!

-- 
John Wright <jsw at debian.org>